A continuation of the military and security activities carried out by Iraqi forces and fighters of the Kurdish forces and guards of Nineveh within the operations of the liberation of Nineveh , and at the end of its third week it has been able to achieve many of the goals and field tasks by which it managed to tighten its control over many of the goals set by the military plan , and drawn up and prepared by the international coalition forces under the supervision of the United States of America and the most important thing that distinguish the third week of the battle can be summarized as follows :
- Kurdish forces tightened its control on the center of district Ba’shiqah after a siege of it from several axes , and with support from the command of the Air Force of coalition forces and with the field participation of the artillery shelling of Turkish troops located at the top of the plateau, which oversees the center of the district and in a distance of 5 km at the beginning of the plateau , they managed to expel and kill all the guerrillas of Daesh and the presence in the district.
- The counter terrorism Command (CTS) continued and with the support and the participation of Iraqi forces to advance toward the residential neighborhoods that follow Alecoqgele area toward the center of city of Mosul, and gained control of the neighborhoods (al-Ikhaa and Aden) and besieged neighborhoods (the al-Bakir and Qadisiyah al-oula and al-Thania and strengthen its presence through combing of neighborhoods ( Al-Maleen Al-thalitha , Quds and Samah) and cleared of explosives and IED mine fields planted by Daesh fighters .
- The repercussions of the axis that resides in it (Guard Nineveh), consisting of the volunteers of the sons of the province of Nineveh and with the support of the division 16, where it managed to tighten control and presence towards the area of ( Sadah and Baoisah), they are important areas from which these military formations can progress toward neighborhoods (Al-Falah and al-Kindi and Hadbah) and progress toward areas that it is possible to meet with the next-east axis of the neighborhoods that have been controlled.
- the southern axis was able to escalate the process of progress toward important objectives, namely in addressing the area (Albu Saif) with heavy artillery and aerial bombardment because they constitute a strategic loop in the arrival of the fighters of the division 15 and federal police fighters to their goals within the city in the areas of (Mosul airport, and Ghazlani camp ) .
- Northern – east axis , which extends from Alkwyr area and having managed to extend its progress from the Junction of Hamdaniya district toward the first residential neighborhoods leading to the city center, a (neighborhood of Intisar) noting that the ninth division forces were unable to expand its advance because of confrontations and clashes and lines of defense created by the fighters of Daesh which reflected negatively on the life and the presence of local residents and the displacement of many of them leaving their houses due to the proximity of the clashes and mutual shelling between the two sides.
- As it was expected, the fighters and brigades of al-popular crowd were continued in their movement and progress through the western axis of the operations sectors and were managed to reach a distance of 3 km from the vicinity of the military Airport of Tal Afar , located 9 km from the district center which is sought by the leaders of the crowd for the implementation of its strategic goals in the rehabilitation of the airport and prepare it to achieve field and combat goals sought by the crowd and its
- The most important event of this week is the process of displacement of the local population who are existed in residential neighborhoods, where the military and security troops entered to it due to the continuing of air and artillery bombardment by the troops concentrated there and operations of explosions and booby-trapping cars and vehicles and the artillery shelling by Daesh fighters, which constitutes a violation of strict principles and rights of residents and who can not stay in their houses and their shops and farms because they have been subjected to various kinds of injuries and many of them were martyrized and wounding others, with the demolition of their houses and places of their presence.
- Upon the arrival of the sons of the city of Mosul to the two areas (Khazar and Hassan Cham), where camps containing tents intended for housing the displaced from the city center, which were set up by humanitarian organizations and the international relief of UN or contributed by the Iraqi ministry of Immigration and Displacement (shamefully), they did not find the simplest fundamentals to help them in their plight and protect them from the cold which its first signs have began in these areas where the number of displaced families has amounted to more than 45 thousand people while these camps can not absorb only 17 thousand families. this is a clear failure and non-field-ready that underlines the fact that lack of attention to the issue especially that the Iraqi government had acknowledged before the start of military operations that it expects the displacement of more than a million people from the city of Mosul.
That the continuation of military operations, and the progress of the security forces and all the formations concentrated with it will determine the path and the end of the battle and illustrates the fact and how to deal with the citizens of the city and secure and preserve their lives .
Rawabet Center for Research and Strategic Studies